• Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The psychological and social impact of a virus -- The reversal of meanings, values and attitudes -- Anxieties and emotions of individuals affected by HIV/ARC/AIDS -- The relevance of group analysis -- Healing power and destructive power of groups -- Group responses to the AIDS crisis: experiences from a workshop -- From the first idea to the final format -- Participants, staff and the spirit of the workshop -- The four talks -- The unspeakable emerges from the non-fishbowl -- What happened behind seven closed doors? -- Facing the darkness in the last plenary session -- The participants’ evaluation of the workshop -- Lessons derived from the workshop -- Recommendations -- Looking towards the future -- Strange phenomena -- Group-analytic and other group work in a world that lives with AIDS -- Postscript -- Leaflet -- Registration form -- Members of staff and speakers -- Group conductors’ meeting -- Programme for staff -- Programme for participants -- Evaluation form

'This book should convince both individual carers and their managers that group analysis has much to offer and can produce tangible results. I hope that one effect of Dr. Molnos' book will be to interest people in a wider application of group-analytic staff support techniques within the Health Service'.- Dr. Deirdre Cunningham, Director of Public Health for Parkside Health Authority, from her Foreword